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• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  Yesterday was one of those days where we were fortunate enough to have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  have a long history of watching awful horror movies (think The Evil Dead ... minutes before finally stumbling upon the new, extended DVD release of ... it would be a winner, since I had already seen it while rushing one of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... (quarter) slices of pizza from a place called Ernesto's on the same street ... game changers, y'all. i've spent a lot of time biking through the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  oversubscribed), so instead I'm taking four classes, of which only one is likely to ... , although it's a little hard to tell, because the first week of the semester ... 'm chilling -- and this chill, combined with the delightful chill of my IAP (and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  A friend of mine (whose honesty, even under cover of anonymity, is ... an interestingly prominent part of his MIT experience. Knowing that ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  chillness progresses through the semester (a harsh winter of studies and ice ... following: These are the contents of a care package I got in the mail this week. -Twelve jars of tuna canned at home by loving mom and sister. They

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  I split the month of August between three states, between two coasts ... scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... -fasting diet of watery vegetable soup and salad (occasionally and discreetly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  was whisked off for a day of exhilarating, platonic adventure ... : this weekend reminded me of it. Several weekends ago, I was having ... one of them casually remarked, "Oh, I saw Mitra the other day

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... 't really part of my college search vocabulary or conceptual framework. I can ... classes as I could, spent the remainder of my time working as a teaching and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... house but did consent to their use of the flower pots outside for midday naps in the sun. My mom had been feeding them some of her chinese cooking

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  You may think you have a pretty good grip on what type of person you are. Let's face it, you just spent the last four years of your life ... , and sense of humor and then sprinkle a love of building things and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  impressive slate of visitors over the past year - Melis recently blogged about ... Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I still think Neil wins. (No offense to the guv'nor, of course.) Of course

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  . Hamentashen debate. In essence, take a bunch of MIT professors and hundreds of ... of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be scarce because of how hard it is to take, compress, crop, upload, and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free screening of Jumper! Speaking of Jumper, I'm wearing a blue sweater. And now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  province being published in the local newspapers. There is no other way of ... interview-related questions. "One of the requirements of MIT is that I should ... school are swahili and english, neither of which is considered foreign in

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... -hour red blocks, many of which overlap. He talks me through how this week he ... is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... and Christmas cards for admitted prefrosh, scrub spam off of our entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008